277: Chapter 277 Establishing the Four Islands

Several days after the Foundation Establishment grand ceremony, the Chen Family began seeking a new way out. Now the Family had two Foundation Establishment Cultivators, and there would be even more in the future. Without other sources of income, it would be very difficult to support two Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

Although the Chen Family was squeezed out to Chenwu Mountain, it was not without a way, because Chenwu Mountain was close to the sea area, which had a large number of sea yao and numerous islands. Previously, the Chen Family only had one Foundation Establishment Cultivator, so they did not dare to casually organize a Monster Hunting Team to go out to sea to hunt yao, but now it was different.

Firstly, as long as their Chen Family took the lead, the surrounding major forces would definitely respond to the Chen Family's call to jointly form a Monster Hunting Team and head deep into the sea area to hunt yao.

Secondly, uninhabited islands truly existed deep in the sea area. If the Chen Family could arrange for a Foundation Establishment Cultivator to hold down the fort, those islands might develop into a market town. Coincidentally, Chen Changqing had brought a second-rank Formation before.

It was not that the islands in the sea area were not occupied by forces; it was just that previously, all four of their families only had one Foundation Establishment Cultivator each and could not stretch their hands to the sea area. Moreover, if the islands over in the sea area did not have a Foundation Establishment Cultivator stationed there and a second-rank Formation protecting them, they would easily be overrun by sea yao.

Besides, the archipelagoes in the sea area were mostly far apart, and Cultivators who could survive in the sea area were generally not weak, making it extremely easy to encounter some bandit Cultivators.

Furthermore, transporting supplies across the sea area also required the care of a Foundation Establishment Cultivator. These two points alone prevented a large number of forces from exploring the sea area.

After Chen Changxuan and Chen Lixuan made their decision, they selected some Qi Refining Cultivators from within the clan, and then chose another portion from the subordinate Qi Refining families. In addition, they discussed with the other three Foundation Establishment families to see if the other parties were willing to go and develop in the sea archipelago together.

Hearing that the Chen Family had such an intention, those three families were naturally willing. Furthermore, guarding the island did not require them to provide a Foundation Establishment Cultivator; they only needed to send people in order each time supplies were escorted.

After they completely finalized the specific plan, several more days passed.

At Chenwu Mountain, over a hundred Qi Refining Cultivators gathered. These were the forces that were going to garrison the sea archipelago.

With this batch of Cultivators and Chen Lixuan, this trip to the sea archipelago was enough.

The ocean boat purchased by the Chen Family's dispatched personnel also arrived just in time.

Under the auspices of the Chen Family, all the Cultivators boarded the ship in an orderly manner and then set off.

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The next day, the Cultivators led by Chen Lixuan were already at sea.

The Wuwang Sea was boundless, with no end in sight at a single glance, and there were not even any reference objects around. Fortunately, they had treasures to guide their direction.

Moreover, there were numerous sea archipelagoes, and the few islands closest to them were at least several thousand miles away from the sea.

With the ocean boat traveling two thousand miles a day, it would take two to three days to gradually see the islands.

As for which island to finally choose to settle down on, they would have to take a look.

Two days later, small black dots began to appear successively ahead of the ocean boat. Upon closer inspection, those small black dots could be seen to be individual islands.

As they got closer to the islands, they also began to see some sea yao, every single one at the first-rank level. Some of these sea yao looked like crabs, some looked like shrimp, some were golden-bodied dragon-bearded fish, and some had bizarre shapes whose appearance could not be made out.

Seeing this ocean boat of Chen Lixuan, some of their gazes were filled with doubt, but most of them rushed up, eyeing the flesh and blood food on this ship.

"Meet the enemy!" Chen Lixuan hurriedly commanded.

The expressions of all the Cultivators on the boat changed, and they immediately struck.

One sea yao after another surrounded them, crazily attacking the ocean boat.

For a time, the sea became chaotic.

A large number of sea yao approached the ocean boat and were wiped out in patches by the second-rank Formation, while others were slain by Qi Refining Cultivators. However, there were still endless streams of sea yao counterattacking from behind.

Seeing this, Chen Lixuan had no choice but to make a move to reduce the pressure on the Cultivators on the boat.

Every time he made a move, he took away the lives of quite a few first-rank sea yao.

"Ah!"

As some sea yao broke through the dense attacks and climbed onto the boat, casualties gradually began to appear among the Cultivators, and miserable screams rose one after another.

Chen Lixuan swept across with a sword, slaying the sea yao that crawled onto the boat one by one.

Those Qi Refining Cultivators below also made their moves.

After an hour of slaughtering over a thousand sea yao, most of them were killed, but more than a dozen Qi Refining Cultivators also died on their side.

As another portion was slain, these sea yao finally discovered they could not destroy this ocean boat and had no choice but to retreat.

Chen Lixuan immediately ordered the Cultivators under his command to approach a nearby island and confirm the number of Cultivator casualties.

Fortunately, these sea yao were only at the first-rank level and no second-rank level appeared; otherwise, their casualties would have been even greater.

It was also fortunate that Chen Changqing had brought the second-rank Medium Grade Formation back then. With this Formation, they were able to make up for the numerical gap between them and the sea yao.

Three days later, Chen Lixuan led people to set off again. They were going to start searching for an island suitable for them to establish a living place.

After this ocean boat traveled another few hundred nautical miles, they finally found an island. This island had a first-rank top-grade Spiritual Vein, and the Yao Beasts on the island were not strong, at most numbering a dozen or so first-rank High Grade Yao Beasts.

Chen Lixuan sent people to arrange for those wounded, and then instructed a portion of the Cultivators to build a stronghold on the spot, while he himself led a portion of the Cultivators to clear out the Yao Beasts on the island.

More than ten days later, the Monster Hunting Team led by Chen Lixuan finally cleared out all the Yao Beasts on the island completely.

Then he instructed the Qi Refining Cultivators with him to directly deploy a second-rank Formation on the Spiritual Vein.

Immediately, this second-rank Formation completely enveloped the island, which had a radius of two to three hundred miles.

Those Qi Refining Cultivators who were busy settling the wounded and patrolling finally felt at ease after seeing the Formation descend.

With the protection of the second-rank Formation, as long as the number of Yao Beasts was not too large, it was simply impossible for them to break the Formation and attack them.

Looking at the first-rank top-grade Spiritual Vein below, Chen Lixuan took out ten thousand Spirit Stones and the Formation to upgrade the Spiritual Vein.

As for the others, they began to build various houses and Immortal Caves.

By the time everything was almost done, another ten-plus days had passed.

"Lixuan, we will live here permanently in the future. This island needs a name, so you should give it one!" Chen Changpeng said solemnly.

As the clan member with the highest seniority among the Chen clan members going to the sea area this time, Chen Changpeng's say was quite significant, and he was also a Ninth Layer of Qi Refining Cultivator.

"Alright, Nineteenth Grand Uncle, ... since it is jointly established by our four families and is surrounded by the sea on all sides, let us call it Sihai Island!" Chen Lixuan nodded, thought carefully for a moment, and stated the name of this island.

Chen Changpeng and the other three families naturally agreed. Although the name Sihai Island sounded a bit vulgar, it possessed the meaning of an Alliance among the four families.

The name of Sihai Island spread to everyone's ears in the blink of an eye.

Starting today, Sihai Island would become one of the most important strongholds of the four families. If there were enough Foundation Establishment Cultivators in the future, perhaps they could rely on this to build a market town here for others to come and trade.

After all, the sea area where they were located happened to be sandwiched right between Bing Prefecture and Ying Province.